Fair Match Up Number One: Trade Federation vs Federation

[Alexus]

Trade Federation vs Federation

TF: Maybe twenty thousand battlships with a total firepower of bout one megaton. (!)

F: Maybe two hundred true warships with an alpha strike of about five megatons. (!)

Who wins and how long does it take?

[wautd]

Who wins and how long does it take?

Trade Federation and not very long

[Stark]

You're numbers are wrong. The TF war freighters are much more powerful than that.

However, even with the firepower disparity, in your scenario they've got orders of magnitude more ships, better shields, and hyperdrive. Guess who wins.

[Alexus]

The TF ships have around 300 6 kiloton laser cannon, or so I'm TOLD.

[The Spartan]

Not sure how long it would take, maybe a few years rather than a instant blitzkrieg, but the (human) Feds lose it again. They don't have anything to punch through the TF's shields. And the TF has a ground army that has actually been equipped with tanks and heavy weapons, not silly little tv-remotes-of-death.

[wautd]

Not to mention the speed at which the TF can refill their losses

[Alexus]

I know the Feds lose. The death toll would be catastrophic.

[The Spartan]

I know the Feds lose. The death toll would be catastrophic.

And this time it's not a trick! Send all the replies you want.

[Firefox]

The TF ships have around 300 6 kiloton laser cannon, or so I'm TOLD.

Who told you?

[Crazedwraith]

The TF ships have around 300 6 kiloton laser cannon, or so I'm TOLD.

Thats only the core ship. The trade feds freighters also have the donoguh around that with quad TLs on.

[Alexus]

Read it in a thread. Let me look around for a bit.

[Alexus]

Oh, RIIIIIGHT. OK. Feds get wiped out, utterly. Twelve battledroids lost, worth over three credits each.

[wautd]

Offcourse, if the UFP would send a positronic quantumphased radiowave hidden in a multifrequency matrix, they could infect the TF droids causing them to go beserk

[Firefox]

Actually, I was thinking they'd make it if a certain Mr. Crusher piloted his Academy training craft into the Droid Control Ship and took out the main reactor.

[Alexus]

Offcourse, if the UFP would send a positronic quantumphased radiowave hidden in a multifrequency matrix, they could infect the TF droids causing them to go beserk

You can't get positronic quantumphased multifrequency matrixes that small. Do you think a Multi-phasic triaxillated flux tesselator would do the job?

[wautd]

Offcourse, if the UFP would send a positronic quantumphased radiowave hidden in a multifrequency matrix, they could infect the TF droids causing them to go beserk

You can't get positronic quantumphased multifrequency matrixes that small. Do you think a Multi-phasic triaxillated flux tesselator would do the job?

crap I forgot the triaxulating part. No wonder I flunked out of Starfleet

[Alexus]

I'm sure if I could get my hands on a Quantum-Quantum-Quantum

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[NecronLord]

The TF ships have around 300 6 kiloton laser cannon, or so I'm TOLD.

That's the core ship. The spherical bit. They have dedicated ring sections that have heavy turbolasers.

In answer to the outstanding question, those numbers are for the core ship's PD array, and come from the AotC ICS.

[Alexus]

I know what a core ship is.

[NecronLord]

I know what a core ship is.

[vorlon]Yes. Now.[/vorlon]

[Alexus]

Then the willows must scuttle carefully.

[NecronLord]

More to the point, Core ship shielding is incredible. They can sit inside a star and be undamaged until their fuel runs out.

[18-Till-I-Die]

More to the point, Core ship shielding is incredible. They can sit inside a star and be undamaged until their fuel runs out.

Wait, where is THAT?

Or are you kidding?

[SirNitram]

More to the point, Core ship shielding is incredible. They can sit inside a star and be undamaged until their fuel runs out.

Wait, where is THAT?

Or are you kidding?

From the Core Ship's writeup in the ICS: peak shield capacity 6e23W

The energy-density of a star's photosphere is 10 kJ/m³. While a Core Ship is big, it's not enough to raise that above the shield capacity.

So yes. A Core Ship can imitate the Culture and hide inside a star...

[NecronLord]

Wait, where is THAT?

AotC ICS

Or are you kidding?

I'm not. That was when I started preffering the Trade Federation to the Empire. Awesomely powerful ships, automated, run by a few techs who live in utter luxury, with armies of robots to do their every whim. It sure beats the Empire, who seem to bend over backwards to make dirty, smelly jobs aborad their ships for recruits.